SQA Advanced Higher RMPS

Advanced Higher · SQAReligious Studies45 notes in 14 folders, 299 KB

Notes for SQA Advanced Higher Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies (course specification version 2.0), in a folder for each of the three areas of study: philosophy of religion, medical ethics and religious experience, split by the topics within each. Medical ethics and religious experience are the optional areas, so delete the one you do not study.

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Philosophy of religion
- Foundations
  - Arguments for God and the God of classical theism6 KB
- Cosmological argument
  - Aquinas: motion, causation and contingency7 KB
  - Leibniz and the principle of sufficient reason6 KB
  - The kalam argument7 KB
  - Philosophical and scientific responses to the cosmological argument7 KB
  - Religious responses to the cosmological argument6 KB
- Teleological argument
  - Aquinas and Paley: arguments from design6 KB
  - Intelligent design and fine-tuning7 KB
  - Philosophical responses to the teleological argument7 KB
  - Scientific responses to the teleological argument7 KB
  - Religious responses to the teleological argument6 KB
- Atheism
  - The improbability of God7 KB
  - The incoherence of the God of classical theism8 KB
  - The presumption of atheism6 KB
  - Philosophical responses to atheism6 KB
  - Scientific and religious responses to atheism8 KB
Medical ethics
- Sanctity of life and ethical approaches
  - Sanctity of life6 KB
  - Ethical approaches to medicine6 KB
- Beginning of life
  - IVF and saviour siblings6 KB
  - Embryo research and family planning7 KB
  - Abortion: law and rights6 KB
  - Religious responses to beginning-of-life issues6 KB
  - Non-religious responses to beginning-of-life issues6 KB
- Organ transplants
  - Organ procurement6 KB
  - Organ allocation7 KB
  - Religious and non-religious responses to organ transplants6 KB
- End of life
  - End-of-life care6 KB
  - Forms of euthanasia7 KB
  - Forms of assisted suicide6 KB
  - Religious responses to end-of-life issues6 KB
  - Non-religious responses to end-of-life issues6 KB
Religious experience
- Understandings of religious experience
  - William James on religious experience7 KB
  - Rudolf Otto and the numinous7 KB
  - Richard Swinburne on religious experience7 KB
- Faith perspectives
  - Mystical experiences7 KB
  - Conversion experiences7 KB
  - Miracles as religious experience8 KB
  - Sensory experiences7 KB
  - Personal relationship with God6 KB
  - Meditative experiences7 KB
- Alternative accounts
  - Psychological accounts: Freud and Jung8 KB
  - Scientific accounts: neuroscience and evolution7 KB
  - Sociological accounts: Marx and Durkheim8 KB
  - Sociological accounts: Weber, Wilson and secularisation9 KB
  - Religious experience as evidence for God7 KB

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Philosophy of religion / Foundations / Arguments for God and the God of classical theism

The arguments about God's existence in Western philosophy of religion are mostly aimed at one particular idea of God, the God of classical theism, which comes from the Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions as developed by medieval philosophers such as Augustine, Anselm, Maimonides, Avicenna and Aquinas. Knowing what that God is meant to be explains both what the arguments set out to prove and why atheists attack the idea itself. ## The God of classical theism Classical theism describes God by a set of attributes, usually presented as belonging together. | Attribute | Meaning | |---|---| | Creator and sustainer | God brings the universe into existence from nothing and keeps it in being | | Omnipotent | God can do anything that is logically possible | | Omniscient | God knows all that can be known, which usually includes the future | | Omnibenevolent | God is perfectly good and loving | | Transcendent | God is beyond space and time and is not part of the universe | | Immanent | God is also present and active within creation (stressed more by some traditions than others) | | Eternal | God is outside time (timeless), or else everlasting, existing at every moment of time | | Immutable | God does not change | | Simple | God has no parts, so God's attributes are not separate things added to God | | Necessary | God cannot fail to exist, and depends on nothing else for existence | Not every theist holds every item. Whether God is timeless or everlasting, for instance, is disputed…

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